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In a new campaign ad out Thursday, Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders calls on people of all genders, ethnicities, races, ages, and sexualities to come together and bring his political revolution to the Oval Office. The 60-second ad, released just days after the Vermont senator trounced Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton in the New Hampshire primary, flashes face after face onscreen. The individual faces are then torn in half and put together randomly, in a representation of the unity Sanders urges in the ad. Читать дальше...

When will Marco Rubio's troubles end? After being taunted by robots in New Hampshire, the Florida senator's latest struggle has come in the form of a Twix bar that has reportedly gotten the best of his molar.

The last remaining anti-government protester at Oregon's Malheur National Wildlife Refuge surrendered Thursday afternoon, ending the 6-week-long occupation. Authorities confirmed that the final holdout, David Fry, walked off the refuge and turned himself in to the FBI around 2 p.m. ET Thursday, despite his earlier claims that he would "die a free man."

On Feb. 11, 2006, then-Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot his companion, Harry Whittington, while quail hunting in Texas. A decade later, Whittington told the New York Daily News that despite the fact that he still has pellets lodged in his cheek and neck, he never did receive an apology from Cheney.

Alan Grayson was the Democratic representative for Florida's 8th congressional district from 2009 to 2011, a period during which he happened to have another job as well — as a hedge fund manager. While Grayson's role running a hedge fund as a sitting member of the House has already led to an investigation by the House Committee on Ethics, emails obtained by The New York Times show the extent to which Grayson's jobs were intertwined "and how he promoted his international travels, some with congressional delegations... Читать дальше...

John Kasich is keeping his expectations low for the upcoming Feb. 20 primary in South Carolina. After pulling off a comfortable second-place finish in the GOP's New Hampshire presidential primary Tuesday, the Ohio governor admitted in a Thursday interview with CNN's New Day that he doesn't expect South Carolina's election to go quite as well. "We're going to compete here," Kasich said of South Carolina's primary. "We don't expect to win here."

One day after civil rights leader Rev. Al Sharpton sat down for a meeting with Sen. Bernie Sanders, he remains unconvinced that the Democratic presidential candidate is adequately addressing the issue of race in income equality.

A survey of 141,189 incoming college freshmen found that the class of 2019 is politically engaged, committed to volunteering, and historically ready to protest.

Albert Einstein's 100-year-old theory of general relativity has been confirmed by the detection of gravitational waves, scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics reported Thursday. The researchers observed a warp of space-time generated through the collision of two black holes, which marked the first time scientists have detected gravitational waves.

As the jury president of this year's Berlin International Film Festival, it was up to Meryl Streep to answer the press' questions about the all-white jury panel. However, Streep dismissed the criticism on Thursday by telling reporters that, "We're all Africans, really."

Being the first black president has had political advantages as well as disadvantages, President Obama said in an interview with the L.A. Times released Thursday.

When the Secret Service is talking about Sen. Bernie Sanders, they refer to him as 'Intrepid.' The Democratic presidential candidate's code name surfaced Thursday in a report by The Bill Press Show, just weeks after Sanders' request to receive Secret Service protection was approved by the Department of Homeland Security.

Hillary Clinton will be scrambling to make up lost ground on Bernie Sanders in the sixth Democratic debate Thursday evening — yes, a rare weeknight debate.

The abstract expressionist Mark Rothko is the kind of artist whose work you look at and go, "Well, I could make that." Unfortunately for two unsuspecting art collectors, a Chinese forger did just that — and the couple was duped into buying the fake for $8.5 million from the famous New York art gallery Knoedler & Co.

Bernie Sanders scored a second big win just one day after dominating the New Hampshire primary Tuesday. Within 24 hours of the Granite State's polls closing, the Vermont senator had topped his $6 million fundraising goal and raised $6.4 million, the Sanders campaign confirmed late Wednesday. The average campaign contribution was just $34, The Hill reports.

There are nervous rumblings in the Clinton camp about the upcoming Nevada caucuses on Feb. 20 — nervousness that some think the campaign might be intentionally stoking. "The question is whether their anxiety about the caucuses is real or carefully orchestrated to make sure that Clinton can claim a triumph even if she narrowly wins a state where she has enjoyed a huge polling lead for months," The Hill writes.

Jeb Bush warned at a rally Wednesday that if people thought President Obama was bad, things would only get worse if Donald Trump were elected president. "We will be worse off than we are right now," the former Florida governor said at a rally in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. "And we are pretty bad off right now."

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U.S. stock futures plunged ahead of the opening bell on Thursday as oil prices fell again. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500, and Nasdaq indexes all fell by nearly 2 percent as U.S. crude oil futures fell below $27 a barrel. Shares in Europe and Hong Kong fell even more sharply. The sell-off came after Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen told lawmakers on Wednesday that the central bank was proceeding more cautiously with plans to slowly raise interest rates as it assesses... Читать дальше...

A long-rumored Bruce Springsteen autobiography is in the works, with sources telling Page Six the book sold to Simon & Schuster for an advance of over $10 million. The Boss had put off writing his life story four years ago when The Who's Pete Townsend and Neil Young both released their own autobiographies.

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Both Chris Christie and Carly Fiorina dropped out of the race for the Republican presidential nomination on Wednesday, after finishing far back in the New Hampshire primary. Christie, the blunt-spoken governor of New Jersey, was credited with deflating a surging Sen. Marco Rubio in the last GOP debate, but that didn't help him at the polls. He finished sixth. Fiorina finished in seventh place with just 4 percent of the vote. The former Hewlett-Packard CEO delivered several strong debate performances... Читать дальше...

Reinhold Hanning, 94, is to go on trial in Germany on Thursday for being an accessory to the murder of at least 170,000 people at the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, The New York Times reports. Hanning was allegedly an SS sergeant who met Jewish prisoners as they arrived at the camp in rail cars.

On Thursday, South Korea suspended operations at the Kaesong industrial zone, a decade-old factory park just across the border in North Korea where 124 South Korean factories hire North Korean workers, and citizens of both countries have a rare chance to interact. The factory park has only been closed once before since starting operations in 2004, when North Korea pulled the plug for five months in 2013. This time, North Korea called South Korea's suspension of operations a "dangerous declaration... Читать дальше...

Until Tuesday night, no one had really questioned Bernie Sanders' Jewish faith. That changed almost immediately after he trounced fellow Democrat Hillary Clinton in the New Hampshire primary.

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In 2013, the world got its first taste of the in-vitro burger — a slab of beef that never actually belonged to a living animal, but was instead created in the lab from cow muscle tissue. It wasn't particularly tasty, and at $330,000, it certainly wasn't affordable, but it was a step toward a more sustainable future. The meat industry accounts for nearly 20 percent of our total greenhouse gas emissions. Plus, animals raised for food take up a ridiculous amount of our land. As Maddie Stone at Gizmodo explains... Читать дальше...

However much we may be at loggerheads right now, surely Democrats can agree on this much: Hillary Clinton was trounced on Tuesday. Indeed, she was so thoroughly trounced that she tweeted her concession at 8:05 pm — all of which frankly suggests that as ugly as the politics have been thus far, they're going to get a lot uglier from here on out.